Book description
The Lives Less Ordinary series brings you the most exciting,
adventurous and entertaining true-life writing that is out there, for
men who are time-poor but want the best. Lives Less Ordinary
drops you into extreme first-hand accounts of human experience,
whether that's the adrenaline-pumping heights of professional sport,
the brutality of the modern battlefield, the casual violence of the
criminal world, the mind-blowing frontiers of science, or the excesses
of rock 'n' roll, high finance and Hollywood. Lives Less
Ordinary also brings you some of the finest comic voices around,
on every subject from toilet etiquette to Paul Gascoigne.
Everyone wants to live forever, right? Well award-winning science
journalists Richard Hollingham and Sue Nelson explain how the latest
cutting-edge science might mean your fantasy is closer to being true
than you might believe. From advances in medicine, cryogenics and ways
of preserving your consciousness, they explain all the mind-blowing
options with a mix of insight and dry humour.
This digital bite has been extracted from Sue Nelson and Richard
Hollingham's fascinating book How to Clone the Perfect Blonde.
Sue Nelson is a reporter for The Material World on BBC
Radio 4. She has written on science for various national newspapers
and has presented numerous scientific programmes for BBC News 24,
Radio 4 and Radio 5 Live. These include Robo Sapiens (winner of
a BT Technology Journalism Award), True Love: At Last Scientific
Proof! (winner of a Glaxo Wellcome Science Writers' Award).
Richard Hollingham is a journalist and presenter for BBC Radio and a
former reporter and senior producer on BBC Radio 4's Today
programme. He has broadcast on science for Radio 4, Radio 5 Live, BBC
News 24 and the BBC World Service, including reports from the top of a
missile in Kazakhstan and down a crevasse in Antarctica.
